In an acidly satiric style, it is devoted to the feuds among academic factions.
Reitman also shrewdly adapted the screenplay from Christopher Buckley's savage satiric novel.
Gradually, a team was put together that began with Douglas Carter Beane writing a new, longer book with a more satiric and political edge.
If the film, with its brittle, satiric London scenes and its expansive Italian ones, breaks too distinctly into pieces, the magic of the sunnier locations seals the cracks.
The skits were satiric commentaries on contemporary and counterculture beliefs.
But Geena Davis, as a hot-shot TV reporter, is smashing: she strikes a lovely balance between warmth and satiric precision, and holds it in the midst of the general chaos.
Though the satiric point of making some of the plutocrats monsters out of an eighteenth-century farce eludes me, the actors try hard for vulgar panache, and they perform with professional skill.
While you might get louder laughs at a comedy night, this exhibition does something more interesting by covering the full gamut of what humour can be - melancholic, witty, satiric, tragic and playful.
The painting's brutalized characters, drawn from history, the Bible, popular culture and even Ensor's family, align the Symbolist artist with a satiric tradition that includes such earlier Northern painters as Hieronymous Bosch and Pieter Bruegel.
He had a great deal to say, with a steady gaze into my eyes, about my reading the New York Post, which he interpreted as a sign of a highly satiric yet demotically moral intelligence.
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